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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:21:57 +0100 (BST)
From:      George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: okay... what exactly does cvs do?
Message-ID:  <20010801032034.T91982-100000@sobek.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Bsd Newbie wrote:

> I run cvsup twice a week, so I thought I'd have the
> latest updates.
>
> Last night I tried install mozilla and when I did a
> 'make clean && make && make install' the installation
> started downloading an older version of mozilla.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

I don't know. You haven't provided any real information.

> I also did a 'make world' and after I did that typing
> 'uname -v' gives the following:
>
>  FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
>    jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>
> I thought it rebuilt everything... if it did, wouldn't
> it give a more recent build date?

'make world' only updates the utilities &c, not the kernel. You have to do
that separately.

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|    George Reid    |  FreeBSD Committer  |
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